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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index e9c706e4627a..902b4574acfb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ The default value is 60. - user_reserve_kbytes -When overcommit_memory is set to 2, "never overommit" mode, reserve +When overcommit_memory is set to 2, "never overcommit" mode, reserve min(3% of current process size, user_reserve_kbytes) of free memory. This is intended to prevent a user from starting a single memory hogging process, such that they cannot recover (kill the hog). |